L.A. Times: Bargewell report finds no cover-up in Haditha

posted at 6:25 pm on June 19, 2006 by Allahpundit

The general charged with investigating whether Marines tried to cover up the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha has completed his report, finding that Marine officers failed to ask the right questions, an official close to the investigation said Friday.

Nothing in the report points to a “knowing cover-up” of the facts by the officers supervising the Marines involved in the November incident, the official said. Rather, he said, officers from the company level through the staff of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force in Baghdad failed to demand “a thorough explanation” of what happened in Haditha…

In the Haditha case, military officials have said that photographs of the scene contradicted the initial reports of Marines that the civilians were killed in the crossfire of a battle that erupted after a roadside bomb went off.

Bargewell’s inquiry was believed to have looked into who knew about the photos, and why those military men did not question the initial report.

It looks like the Democrats are making the case against themselves, again.

They have perfected this art since Nov. 1994 and now have Karl Rove to blame. One couldn’t write such fiction, if one were talented to do so…

History will record “…at the turn of the century, while the country was fighting for its survival, Democratic luminaries roamed the vaunted halls of our Capitol: Mr. Kennedy (of Massachussetts), Mr. Kerry (also of Massachussetts), Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Murtha, Ms. Boxer, Mr. Reid, Mr. Durban…the Republicans had a few of their own”

There needs to be a discussion of the root cause of civilian deaths in Iraq. Civilians are dying because the “soldiers” of Allah have neither the courage nor the conviction to wear a uniform. They disguise themselves as civilians so they can cower among the very people they claim to defend.

Allah, how did you do the painitng?
It actually looks like Mutha’s face has been pinted in, not just photoshopped. (Sorry everyone, I am just interested in that type of stuff, should have seen what I did to my Universities VP years ago…Dave harnage of Borg)

Other then that, Mutha is going down pretty quick. The question now is, will he begin acting even more insane?

REP. MURTHA: So–and we don’t have to be right there. We can go to Okinawa. We, we don’t have–we can redeploy there almost instantly. So that’s not–that’s, that’s a fallacy. That, that’s just a statement to rial [sic] up people to support a failed policy wrapped in illusion.MR. [TIM] RUSSERT: But it’d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.REP. MURTHA: Well, it–you know, they–when I say Okinawa, I, I’m saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly.

[Article author:] They can? The two 500-lb bombs that killed Zarqawi were dropped by F-16 fighter aircraft. According to the U.S. military:

In an air-to-surface role, the F-16 can fly more than 500 miles (860 kilometers), deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point.